2006),[1] was a legal challenge to New York State's law disenfranchising individuals convicted of felonies while in prison and on parole.

[2][3] The plaintiff, Joseph Hayden, a former incarcerated felon and Campaign Director at nonprofit Unlock the Block, argues that because the law has a disproportionate impact on African Americans it violates Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act as a denial of the right to vote on account of race, in addition to violating the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

[4] In an en banc rehearing of a panel decision, the Second Circuit held that the law did not violate the Voting Rights Act.

[1] New York State later restored voting rights to people on parole, first by executive order in 2018, and then by law in 2021.

However, people in prison are still unable to exercise the right to vote in New York.